Cancer survival inspires new life

IT WAS only after Sue Kirkegaard took hold of her health that she discovered she had cancer, and she's glad she did.

Ms Kirkegaard knows if she had not become healthy, and lost 25kg, her fight with breast cancer would have been much different.

"It would have been about 2013. I decided I was at that point in my life where I was overweight, I was unhealthy, I had no energy, no motivation and so I decided to do something about my health for the long term," she said.

"So I started watching what I was eating and 12 months later I had lost about 25kg."

Ms Kirkegaard said it was going through that process she found a lump in her breast, not getting it checked out until months later like she admits she should have.

She had to undergo a full mastectomy which was followed by chemotherapy. Being able to come out of that "really well" she attributes to Blush Cancer Care.